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SortSeminar in Economic Theory**Term: Spring 2026****Location at Harvard:** Littauer Center 301, Hansen-Mason Room

**Location at MIT:** E51-151

**Meeting Time:** Thursdays, 4:00 PM - 5:20 PM**Description:** For those with an interest in economic theory. Faculty presentations by Harvard and MIT economists and invited guest speakers. 

**List Serv/Announcements (we are currently only accepting new requests from Harvard and MIT email accts):** [Info | theoryecon-seminar-list@lists.fas.harvard.edu - FASLists](https://web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/lists/theoryecon-seminar-list.lists.fas.harvard.edu/)

[Past Seminars in Theory](https://economics.harvard.edu/past-seminars-theory)

Contact: [Nicole Ojugbana](mailto:nojugbana@fas.harvard.edu)





SortDATESPEAKERTITLE**LECTURE LOCATION**February 5

Ravi Jagadeesan

[“The Limits of Auctions under Ex-Ante Collusion”](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ECY-fpMIg88DJgRahq9FmTCRseonK_tp/view?pli=1) (with Ilya Segal and Alex Tordjman)

MIT, E51-151

February 12

Drew Fudenberg

“Forecasts and Conditionally I.I.D Models" (with Giacomo Lanzani)

Littauer 301, Hansen Mason Room

February 19

Piotr Dworczak

["Optimal Redistribution via Income Taxation and Market Design"](https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.northwestern.edu/dist/1/2465/files/2025/12/Optimal-Redistribution-via-Income-Taxation-and-Market-Design.pdf) (with Paweł Doligalski, Mohammad Akbarpour, and Scott Duke Kominers)

Littauer 301, Hansen Mason Room

February 26

Ludvig Sinander

["Outside Options and Risk Attitude"](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14732) (with Gregorio Curello and Mark Whitmeyer)

MIT, E51-151

March 5

Gabe Carroll

"On Single Versus Multiple Inequality Attitudes"

Littauer 301, Hansen Mason Room

March 12

Nina Bobkova

"Why Anecdotes?" (with Arjada Bardhi)

MIT, E51-151

April 2

Bobby Pakzad-Hurson

"Equal Pay Laws in Equilibrium: Constraints, Wage Gaps, and Segregation" (with F. Kojima)

Littauer 301, Hansen Mason Room

April 9

Agathe Pernoud

[ "Bundling Against Learning"](https://web.stanford.edu/~shuny/papers/learning.pdf) (with Frank Yang)

MIT, E51-151

April 23

Alex Wolitzky

"Competitive Many-to-One Matching: Sorting vs. Equality"

Littauer 301, Hansen Mason Room